Human Genome Sciences — and the introduction to Eric
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Led work on HIV's regulatory genes and replication at Harvard and Dana-Farber; later chief executive of Human Genome Sciences. Keynoted one of the last PC Forums.
Extraordinarily well connected, and students and colleagues who founded major companies brought him in as a co-founder because of it. He introduced Jonathan Hare to his brother Eric.
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He was a friend of Jay Short, chief executive of Diversa, and quietly minded that Short never put him on that board — which puzzled Hare, since Human Genome Sciences was the higher-profile company by some distance. A small observation about how status works among people who have plenty of it.
For a stretch of years Bill Haseltine connected Hare to notable people wholesale — Michael Milken, Steve Case, David Agus, and many others. The Agus introduction alone rewired the record: the mentorship, Navigenics, the Ellison institute arc, and the fifteen-minute call that put Mark Zuckerberg's healthcare curiosity into a meeting about the Resilient Trust Network. The record's standing observation about Haseltine holds — extraordinarily well connected, and generous with it.
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Chief scientist, and five doctorates in one room
Open →sisterChanged medicine for half the population
Open →introduced Hare toBill Haseltine's introduction; the oncologist to Redstone, the moguls and Andy Grove; a major mentor — and the relay request on this page is live
Open →his advisor's co-laureate1980 Nobel in Chemistry for recombinant DNA; organizer of Asilomar 1975; first director of Stanford's Beckman Center; the biochemist whose lunch turned Jobs toward NeXT — and a narrator of the Jobs documentary
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